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Mike Luckovich | Iraq War Memorial / www.truthdig.com

Sat, 03/09/2013 - 13:48 — Dave Culver

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No backdoor to war with Iran

Sat, 03/09/2013 - 13:38 — Dave Culver

Rebecca Griffin, Peace Action West

Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Andy Driscoll

March 4, 2013 | The run-up to war doesn’t happen overnight. It’s made up of small steps to slowly build acceptance for the idea of military action.

A group of senators have introduced just such a bill that urges US military and other support if Israel attacks Iran. Tell your senators to oppose this backdoor to war with Iran.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a powerful lobbying group with hawkish positions on Iran, is marching on the Hill this week, bringing thousands of supporters to DC to lobby in favor of this bill.

It is very difficult for senators to say no to pressure to support this bill if they aren’t hearing from the other side. Your senators need to hear from you right now.

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Americans Fear Iran but There Is Much to Learn From Cuba, William Pfaff, TruthDig

We have paid, and the Cubans paid ever since much more heavily than Americans—to no purpose. Now, Americans seem ready to make the Iranians pay for the price of our obsessions. We will pay, too, as we always have before. Will there be anyone someday to apologize? 

 

 
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Argentina begins prosecution of military-era human rights abuses

Wed, 03/06/2013 - 17:18 — Dave Culver

  • “This is a huge step to achieve the truth internationally,” says Atilio Borón, an Argentine political scientist who studies social movements and democracy. Human rights have become a cornerstone of Argentine politics since Néstor Kirchner, the predecessor and late husband of current President Cristina Kirchner, overturned impunity laws.
  • Eyes Wide Open (2010)

Jonathan Gilbert, Christian Science Monitor / MinnPost

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In 1980, a young, left-wing Argentine militant named Horacio Campiglia was abducted in Rio de Janeiro and then taken to a military base in Buenos Aires, never to be heard from again.

In the southern cone, Mr. Campiglia's story is a familiar one – he is one of tens of thousands of dissidents who were "disappeared" – abducted and murdered – by military dictatorships in the region in the 1970s and 1980s.

Now, the former government officials responsible for those disappearances are being put on the stand for the first time.

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Eyes Wide Open (2010), Democratic Underground

After 500 years of exploitation and repression, Latin America is at a turning point in its history: a series of socialist leaders has come to power. Can they satisfy their peoples' hunger for change?

 

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Eyes Wide Open (2010)

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 12:17 — Dave Culver

After 500 years of exploitation and repression, Latin America is at a turning point in its history: a series of socialist leaders has come to power. Can they satisfy their peoples' hunger for change?

Democratic Underground

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In his 1971 standard work Open Veins in Latin America, Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano describes the centuries of economic exploitation of his part of the world. Almost 40 years later, Uruguayan documentary filmmaker Gonzalo Arijon reevaluates the situation in Eyes Wide Open - A Journey Through today's South America. His search takes him from the soybean plantations of the Brazilian Amazon and the tin mines of Bolivia to the deep jungles of Ecuador.

Arijon, winner of the Joris Ivens Award in 2007 for “Stranded”, shows how the current crop of leftist leaders in these countries are attempting to resist the squandering of natural resources by large, international companies. The principal culprits he identifies are the neoliberal ideology and the ensuing wave of privatizations. Arijon’s politically committed film allows the local populations to speak for themselves, interspersing this with archive footage of speeches by the likes of Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Lula da Silva (Brazil), and Evo Morales (Bolivia). Galeano himself also talks – sometimes in poetic language – about how the rise of socialist governments in the early 21st century is benefitting Latin America, and what more can be done." 

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Jimmy Margulies | Obama drone killing / media.cagle.com

Sat, 03/02/2013 - 20:15 — Dave Culver

 

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The Syrian Crisis, Geopolitical Ramifications And Consequences For India

Sat, 03/02/2013 - 19:53 — Dave Culver

  • In the lead-up to today’s Friends of Syria summit meeting in Rome, the United States has signalled a shift in policy, towards openly arming the Syrian opposition that is fighting a US proxy war to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
  • Americans Fear Iran but There Is Much to Learn From Cuba

Feroze Mithiborwala, countercurrents.org

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28 February 2013 | Even as our car approached Damascus enroute from Beirut, we could see black plumes of smoke emerging from the outskirts of the city. The sound of bombardments continued all through the course of the day & night, with little respite. Way back in 2006, when Israel had waged the war on Lebanon, we had to travel from Damascus to Beirut, the twin cities of resistance.

Since the very onset, we were aware that the geopolitical war for Syria will have tremendous ramifications for the very power structure of the world & especially for West Asia, the Middle East & North Africa. Thus there was a strategic imperative for a deeper understanding & a constructive politically informed intervention on the part of the Indian people's movements.

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Americans Fear Iran but There Is Much to Learn From Cuba, William Pfaff, TruthDig

We have paid, and the Cubans paid ever since much more heavily than Americans—to no purpose. Now, Americans seem ready to make the Iranians pay for the price of our obsessions. We will pay, too, as we always have before. Will there be anyone someday to apologize? 

 

 
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